Category: Health & Environment

The African Union (AU) has conferred a medal of honour on Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, for his role in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia.

The AU head of mission in Nigeria, Joshua Obasanya, presented the medal to Dr. Uwah in Abuja, May 24, 2019.

Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, an epidemiologist, works in the ministry of health in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

He was among a few doctors with a requisite knowledge in public health and epidemiology recruited as volunteers by the AU in 2014 to help in the containment of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Dr. Uwah spent six months in Liberia.

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The Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) has performed undertook its first surgery to remove brain tumour using a machine that drills the skull bone to gain access to the tumour.

The brain operation involving tumour had been in the patient (a woman) for three years before the surgery was done by a combined effort of neurosurgeons, Ear-Nose-Throats (ENT), surgeons and the Anaesthetists.

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37-year-old Chibawanye Ene has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on brain tumor research.

According to the Applied Radiation Oncology, a quarterly journal on cancer, Chibawanye Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual scientific meeting, which held from April 13 to April 17 [2019] in San Diego, USA.

Chibawanye Ene won the award with his research work titled: “Anti-PD-L1 Immunotherapy Enhances Radiation-induced Abscopal Response in Glioblastoma”.

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Dr. Dupe Ademola-Popoola, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), has developed blindness detection kits – Teacher Led Vision Screener (TELVIS) and Vision Save.

Dr. Dupe Ademola-Popoola been granted a patent on the device, Teacher Led Vision Screener (TELVIS).

According to the University of Ilorin Bulletin issued on the 13th of May, 2019, TELVIS helps detect sight challenges in children and young people

It further explained that the device could be used by non-professionals, particularly teachers, to detect sight inadequacies among pupils.

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Oluwaseyi Shorinola, Emmanuel Balogun, Rufus Akinyemi and 27 other early career African scientists honoured with the 2019 FLAIR Fellowship Award.

Emmanuel Balogun, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria; Dr. Rufus Akinyemi, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and Dr. Oluwaseyi Shorinola, made the list of FLAIR project of the African Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society in Naivasha, Kenya.

The scientists receive $391,500 each for a two- year research project aimed at developing the continent.

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Nigerian startup Medsaf and SA startup Iyeza Health have received $10,000 each from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after winning the foundation’s Malaria and Vaccine Delivery challenges, respectively.

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Wecyclers, a Lagos-Based waste recycling company, has won the 2019 King Baudouin African Development Prize worth €200,000 (₦104 million) for its development work in Africa.

According to Herve Lisoir, Coordinator Africa and Developing countries, King Baudouin Foundation:

“We selected Wecyclers because we know that waste management is an issue for Lagos, Africa and Europe. We celebrate your innovation, perseverance and keeping it real.”

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